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Firefox on Linux CSS Issues

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  • 27-06-2007 2:38pm
    #1
    Huggles
    Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭


    Aggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh

    Ok Lads and lasses help me here.... I need to put it into very simple english for my colleagues. When working with divs and the like i usually test in IE6 IE7 and firefox on mac and pc....all is well

    It all seems to fall apart on firefox for linux...is it just not compatible/buggy etc....Massive rows going on in here between designers and developers...developers wantt o go back to tables...

    My arguement to ignore FF on linux and focus on these (IE6 IE7 and firefox on mac and pc) gets me more abuse...

    HELP! Me win this arguement! :o


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    #2
    Ph3n0m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,655 ✭✭✭Ph3n0m


    Well my first question is how buggy is buggy?

    Then I would then ask who the target audience is going to be?


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    Ideally it should work well in all browsers ... or fall down gracefully ...

    Some stats from one of my more popular sites:
    1. Internet Explorer / Windows 2,593 78.58%
    2. Firefox / Windows 426 12.91%
    3. Safari / Macintosh 166 5.03%
    4. Firefox / Macintosh 59 1.79%
    5. Firefox / Linux 17 0.52%
    6. Mozilla / Linux 11 0.33%
    7. Internet Explorer / Macintosh 10 0.30%
    8. Opera / Windows 9 0.27%
    9. Netscape / Windows 4 0.12%
    10. Mozilla / Windows 3 0.09%

    So you'd be looking at alienating 1% ... these would mostly be non tech savy people though ...

    If its a tech site ... your number of users with linux is going to be a lot larger ...


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    Ph3n0m wrote:
    Well my first question is how buggy is buggy?

    Knew I should have asked another question ... :D ... I do find it hard to believe that firefox linux breaks it that much though ... how good are ye with CSS ?


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    Winters
    Registered Users Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    forbairt wrote:
    Knew I should have asked another question ... :D ... I do find it hard to believe that firefox linux breaks it that much though ... how good are ye with CSS ?
    Seeing as though Firefox runs on the same Gecko engine reguardless of OS I find it hard to see how something could break.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Winters wrote:
    Seeing as though Firefox runs on the same Gecko engine reguardless of OS I find it hard to see how something could break.

    I was going to say the same thing .....

    Half our staff use FF on Ubuntu in the office and never have any issues with sites .....

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    #7
    colm_c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,031 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Maybe it's just the version of FF.

    Some of the early releases were quite rubbish.


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